Thank you for sharing these most amazing photographs and experiences. I look forward to every single face book notification from you. From the bottom of my heart I thank you.
Perhaps one day you will be hovering over Cape Town South Africa and you could take a photo.

This is so inspiring. Not only for what it means, but specially for not having anything to do with right or left wing, capitalism, communism, socialism or whatever-ism. It’s a reflection of what we really are. What whoever (nature, God, or whatever) meant us to be.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with all of us down here.

Sad to say, but I completely agree with you. I hate how now-a-days everyone is more fixated on social media and stupid things like tweaking when 20 30 years ago it was the space race. I feel that humanity has lost sight of what is important and needs someone to put things into perspective. My boyfriend actually was the one who showed your twitter page to me. I read it everyday now. I just wish more people felt the same way you do.
Keep posting ! Your voice is obviously heard from All corners of this gorgeous planet :) have a good cycle up there

Sad to say, but I completely agree with you. I hate how now-a-days everyone is more fixated on social media and stupid things like twerking when 20 30 years ago it was the space race. I feel that humanity has lost sight of what is important and needs someone to put things into perspective. My boyfriend actually was the one who showed your twitter page to me. I read it everyday now. I just wish more people felt the same way you do.
Keep posting ! Your voice is obviously heard from All corners of this gorgeous planet :) have a good cycle up there

Actually some borders are visible from LEO at night: India’s appears in places as a bright line formed by intense fence lighting – and the one between South and North Korea is marked by an abrupt drop in city lights. Alien explorers would be bewildered, even from some distance …

I have a suggestion for an answer to visitors from other species: „Not everyone is yet able to see the world from a „higher viewpoint“. But this world is still young and goes through hard phase of „adolescence“. These are turbulent times. Be patient and come again soon.“

We don’t understand the fact that all we are living at the same world, the frontiers and religions are human invention … it’s difficult to understand that the lifes of persons depend of to be on one or other side of this imaginary line.

Many times we behave as the less evolved of the Earth species, so stupid to destroy itself and the environment in which live.

Think of how many dreamers and peace symbols we killed by egocentrism, political, religious intolerance … it’s a shame.

One question that I wanted to make to you one day, was if you had the possibility to contact with others civilizations out there, how you’re going to define our specie?

REALLY AMAIZING … YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON AND THATS WHY LIFE MAKE YOU SPECIAL.- GO ALEX YOU ARE A POWERFUL MAN, DONT GIVE BAD USE AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY WITH PERSON U WANT TO BE….. UN SALUDO DESDE PAMPLONA ( ESPAÑA) DONDE CORREMOS LOS TOROS (WE RUN THE BULLS) AND WE MAKE VOLKWAGUEN POLO … UN ABRAZO GRACIAS.

„We hear such comments as that aliens, once radio contact is established, would teach us about all the secrets of the universe. Just why would an advanced technological civilization share its secrets with a primitive society whose major activity (judging by how its wealth is spent) would certainly appear to be tribal warfare and for whom every new frontier is a new place to do battle? Earthlings killed about 50 million other Earthlings during WW II and destroyed 1700 cities. Currently almost $1trillion per year is spent on the military while 30,000 children die needlessly every day of preventable diseases and starvation.“

Gaza is definitely in this photo. If you look along the bottom, where the coast is, all the way to the left the big blot is Tel Aviv. Moving to the right along the coast, the first small blob is Ashdod, the second small blob is Ashkelon, then the dim third small blob is Gaza city. About halfway between Gaza city blob and Ashkelon blob is the border of Israel and the Gaza strip. Continuing on with the dim blobs are Nuseirat/Deir al Balah, Khan Yunis, and ending with Rafa marking the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

Hi Alex, I had understood that the photo featured the Gaza Strip only. After your clarification I was able to see that the Gaza Strip is actually present, but it covers slightly more than one fifth of the picture’s length, with no particular luminous blots being present. The problem is that this picture is now getting viral on world social networks as evidence of the explosions caused by the bombing of Gaza: a huge number of people have however proved unable to correctly interpret the picture, and have taken the blots corresponding to Israel’s major cities (Tel Aviv, Ashdod, Jerusalem and Be’er Sheva) as the blots caused by the explosions.

Couldn’t get through any of this without wanting to weep, this is such a powerful statement and I hope this observation can be used as a tool for peace in the future. Thank you for the work you do, and giving us a different perspective on what’s really going on.

I do not at all believe in aliens, even though I have lots of fun watching people’s imagination of them in SF movies. But if aliens did exist it is realistic to believe that they would not view humans as a very developed species or something that they would want to keep around.

We are dumb enough to kill each other for centuries and endanger our planet to a point that it will become inhabitable if we keep up this behavior. I am afraid that aliens would look at us like we are looking at animals and treat us like we treat them.

That seems very logical to me. It is a somewhat naive idea to think that aliens would go through the trouble of reaching our planet unless they need something on it. We would in all likelihood just be getting in their way. Just look at how humans treat each other when they conquer new territory and want something.

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How about this as an explanation of our behavior:

„We humans are often very selfish and rarely ever able to see the bigger picture. Therefore we often do whatever is good for 1 individual, ourselves and do not care much about the effect that this behavior has on other people or the planet.

The majority of us are also lacking the capacity to understand the long term results of our actions.

We do not make such a mess on purpose but for the time being are not evolved enough yet to really change our behavior on a global scale.“

I fully agree, however we even have to look nearer home. What do we tell our children and grandchildren when they ask us: ‚what have you done to our planet?‘ Can we still look into their eyes without being utterly ashamed?

Thanks for the wonderful pictures.

Greetings from the beautiful Namibia. We still have environmental sanctuaries. I wonder how long.
Bertchen Kohrs

Thanks for talking these amazing picture. Global Warming is affecting our planet. We need to help Earth, stop using cars, plastic. I love the picture you took because its showing us how important our Earth is. We only have one.